Google Analytics Question? Two accounts tracking one website

seachto7

Hi all,

Is it possible to track one website using two accounts, as opposed to two profiles.

For example. Website www.abc.com has analytics installed.

With a separate account, is it possible to install part of the GA snippet and track the one website with 2 analytics accounts? So, it would look something like this:

<script type=“text/javascript”>
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(
[‘_setAccount’, ‘UA-XXXXA-X’],
[‘_trackPageview’],
[‘b._setAccount’, ‘UA-XXXXB-X’],
[‘b._trackPageview’]
);
(function() {
var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
})();
</script>

YankIE

The official policy from google (not supported):

http://support.google.com/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1032400

I have several sites where I ran two separate GA scripts on the same page (associated with separate GA accounts), and could not detect any issues.

Never tried mixing multiple profiles in the same script, however...

seachto7

I tried it, and it seems to work. Tracking the same site, but with 2 different profiles temporarily

YankIE

seachto7 wrote: »

I tried it, and it seems to work. Tracking the same site, but with 2 different profiles temporarily

I was looking at the source of cnet.com for an entirely different purpose- and noticed they had two profiles within the same GA script. Must be fine- I figure they must know what they are doing.

You can see for yourself at their home page.